Local Interest Catalog

This is an extremely small selection of some of the local interest titles we have at Carmichael's.  We have an extensive selection of Kentucky authors, Kentucky travel, and Kentucky history.  We typically have every book by Wendell Berry that is currently in print as well as a large selection of Thomas Merton titles.  We may also have some locally published titles that we are not able to list on the website.  Please call us or send an e-mail if you don't see what you are looking for!

by Samuel W. Thomas

Published 2010

 

Sam Thomas is the author of 18 books, major studies on Louisville neighborhoods, and numerous articles on local history. As a founder of Preservation Alliance, a member of the Louisville Landmarks Commission, and archivist for Jefferson County he is a leader not only in documenting our city's history, but in preserving it.
Sam Thomas is well-known for documenting the history of Louisville and its neighborhoods in books like Views of Louisville Since 1766, Old Louisville: The Victorian Era (with William Morgan), St. Matthews: The Crossroads of the Beargrass, The Cherokee Triangle, The Village of AnchorageCave Hill Cemetery. Each of his books is a significant contribution to the written record, however most were printed in limited editions and several are currently out of print with used copies in high demand. In The Architectural History of Louisville, Sam Thomas provides a detailed and lavishly illustrated record of Louisville's architectural heritage, both lost and preserved, from the grandest buildings to the most humble shotgun houses and everything in between. Beginning in 1778 with the city's founding, Sam Thomas used extensive deed and document research to piece together the architectural styles, architects, and buildings that formed the fabric of our city up to the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the 425 examples discussed in the book are now lost to history, making this book the definitive and indispensable guide for generations to come.


Thomas Merton's Gethsemani: Landscapes of Paradise By Harry L. Hinkle Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780813123486
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - June 10th, 2005

Introduction by Jonathan Montaldo Foreword by Brother Patrick Hart, OCSO For twenty-seven years, renowned and beloved monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) belonged to Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery established in 1848 amid the hills and valleys near Bardstown, Kentucky. In Thomas Merton's Gethsemani, dramatic black-and-white photographs by Harry L.


Plant Life of Kentucky: An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Flora By Ronald L. Jones Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780813123318
Published: University Press of Kentucky - March 25th, 2005

Plant Life of Kentucky is the first comprehensive guide to all the ferns, flowering herbs, and woody plants of the state. This long-awaited work provides identification keys for Kentucky's 2,600 native and naturalized vascular plants, with notes on wildlife/human uses, poisonous plants, and medicinal herbs.


Imagination in Place By Wendell Berry Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781582437064
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Published: Counterpoint - February 1st, 2011

“Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of intellectual influences, and in doing so, positions Berry more squarely as a cornerstone of American literature . . . A necessary book. Here, Berry's place as the 'grandfather of slow food' or the 'prophet of rural living' is not questioned.


Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky By Thomas G. Barnes, S. Wilson Francis Cover Image
$29.95
ISBN: 9780813123196
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - June 1st, 2004

Since Kentucky is situated at a biological crossroads in eastern North America, citizens and visitors to this beautiful state are likely to be greeted by an astonishing variety of wildflowers. This non-technical guide -- featuring more than five hundred dazzling full-color photographs by award-winning photographer Thomas G.


Kentucky Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species By James Kavanagh, Leung Raymond (Illustrator) Cover Image
By James Kavanagh, Leung Raymond (Illustrator)
$7.95
ISBN: 9781583551479
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Published: Waterford Press - September 1st, 2017


This is the long, catalog/marketing description of the product.Over 350 species of birds are either permanent residents, regular breeders, or annual migrants in Kentucky, making the Bluegrass State a prominent location for learning about and finding birds.


Kentucky Horse Country: Images of the Bluegrass By James Archambeault Cover Image
$45.00
ISBN: 9780813125053
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - October 3rd, 2008

On any given day, more than forty thousand horses roam the fields of the Bluegrass, and there are more than five hundred horse farms in the region known for its rich soil and rolling hills.


The Great Louisville Tornado of 1890 (Disaster) By Keven McQueen Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781596298927
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Published: History Press - March 10th, 2010

On March 27, 1890, a devastating storm moved over the Ohio River Valley, spawning dozens of deadly tornados. The most powerful of these twisters touched down in Louisville, carving a path of unprecedented destruction from Main Street to the end of town. In the aftermath, nearly eight hundred buildings in the city were destroyed, and over one hundred people perished.


$29.95
SKU: 9781935497110

By Billy Reed

Hardcover • 9 x 11 • 200 pages • fully illustrated

Since its opening in 1956, Louisville, Kentucky's Freedom Hall has been one of the nation's premier sports and entertainment venues. It has been the home of six NCAA Final Fours, the World's Championship Horse Show, Muhammad Ali's early professional fights, the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA, and an untold number of concerts, circuses, rodeos, ice shows and other family events.

Mostly, though, it has been the home of the University of Louisville Cardinals basketball teams, who will move to a new downtown arena late in 2010. In its 54 winters in Freedom Hall, the U of L men's basketball team won NCAA titles in 1980 and '86.

For more than five decades, Freedom Hall has been both a gathering place and a crossroads for millions of Americans and almost every Kentuckian. Along with Churchill Downs—home of the Kentucky Derby—Freedom Hall has made Louisville the home of two iconic sports and entertainment venues.

As a tribute and loving send-off to the arena that the Rev. Billy Graham once called "the most beautiful auditorium in the world," award-winning journalist Billy Reed captures some of Freedom Hall's greatest events and most memorable moments in this nostalgic salute to one of America’s premier sports and entertainment venues.


The Encyclopedia of Louisville By John E. Kleber (Editor) Cover Image
By John E. Kleber (Editor)
$49.95
ISBN: 9780813121000
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - December 4th, 2000

With more than 1,800 entries, The Encyclopedia of Louisville is the ultimate reference for Kentucky's largest city. For more than 125 years, the world's attention has turned to Louisville for the annual running of the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May. Louisville Slugger bats still reign supreme in major league baseball.


Birds of Kentucky Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides) By Stan Tekiela Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781885061966
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Published: Adventure Publications - May 11th, 2001

Go Birding with Kentucky's Best-Selling Bird Guide


Of Woods and Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader By Ron Ellis (Editor) Cover Image
By Ron Ellis (Editor)
$29.95
ISBN: 9780813123738
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - October 1st, 2005

From the moment Daniel Boone first "gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and ...beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below," generations of Kentuckians have developed rich and enduring relationships with the land that surrounds them.


Sweet Spot: 125 Years of Baseball and the Louisville Slugger By David Magee, Philip Shirley, Ken Griffey, Jr. (Foreword by) Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781600781766
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Published: Triumph Books - May 1st, 2009

The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge By Wendell Berry, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (Photographs by) Cover Image
By Wendell Berry, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (Photographs by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781593760922
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Published: Counterpoint - February 2nd, 2006

Only someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a wild place so lovingly. Wendell Berry just as easily steps into Kentucky's Red River Gorge and makes the observations of a poet as he does step away to view his subject with the keen, unflinching eye of an essayist.


Kentucky's Last Great Places By Thomas G. Barnes Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9780813122304
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - June 28th, 2002

" With over 100 glorious full-color photographs and insightful text, Kentucky's Last Great Places highlights the incredible natural beauty found in the Commonwealth's old-growth forests, prairies, wetlands, and other distinctive biological habitats.


Compact Guide to Kentucky Birds By Michael Roedel, Gregory Kennedy Cover Image
$13.95
ISBN: 9789768200013
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Published: Lone Pine International - March 1st, 2006

A great introductory field guide to the birds of Kentucky. This book features over 80 species. Each account has two pages of color illustrations and detailed information including each bird's common and scientific name, its size and voice, a range map, a photograph of the bird's egg, along with information on nesting, size of the egg and incubation period.


Trees & Shrubs of Kentucky By Mary E. Wharton, Roger W. Barbour (With) Cover Image
$39.95
ISBN: 9780813112947
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - December 2nd, 1994

This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive guide to the 282 species of woody plants found in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Eastern Missouri. Illustrated with more than 1,150 photographs, this book shows not only leaves and bark, but also buds, flowers, and fruits to enable you to recognize trees at any season.


Louisville's Butchertown (Images of America) By Edna Kubala Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9780738566658
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Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC) - February 8th, 2010

Located just east of downtown Louisville, Butchertown is a fascinating mix of architectural styles, businesses, and history. The neighborhood is named for the early Louisville butchers who found the area's strategic location on Beargrass Creek and its proximity to the Frankfort and Shelbyville turnpikes ideal for their operations.


Kentucky Trees & Wildflowers: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants By James Kavanagh, Leung Raymond (Illustrator), Waterford Press Cover Image
$7.95
ISBN: 9781583554487
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Published: Waterford Press - March 1st, 2009


This is the long, catalog/marketing description of the product.Across its rich and varied patchwork of prairies, hardwood forests, caves, wetlands, and rivers grow thousands of plant species, including such stand-outs as Bee Balm, Blazing Stars, and state flower Goldenrod. Kentucky is a fitting place to study and learn about a wide array of plant species.


Baseball in Louisville (Images of Baseball) By Anne Jewell, Mary E. Barney (Foreword by), Louisville Slugger Museum &. Factory Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9780738542416
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Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC) - July 5th, 2006

Louisville and baseball share a long and strong bond that also happens to be one rollicking tale. From scandals and superstars, to Louisville Slugger(R) bats and beyond, Baseball in Louisville explores the ups, downs, eccentricities, and historic elements that define America's great pastime in Louisville.


Kentucky (America) By Tanya Lloyd Kyi Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781552854167
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Published: Whitecap America - January 1st, 2010

Rare Wildflowers of Kentucky By Thomas G. Barnes, Deborah White, Marc Evans Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780813124964
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - July 4th, 2008

Kentucky's rich soil and wonderfully diverse landscapes have for centuries made the state a welcoming habitat for a dazzling variety of wildflowers. From the delicate Kentucky glade cress to the fiery royal catchfly, flowers, grasses, and sedges nestle on rocky hillsides, bask in open woodlands and prairies, and even manage to thrive in busy rights of way and roadsides.